/lit/ - Literature

Books on the idea that death is illusory?

>>11288924
Just kidding, it's just funny to see it like that. I don't even know I'm his direct descendant though I bear his name.
But if you like the painting I can tell you the story. It is his only known work, and it represents the famous romantic painter Géricault, who died painfuly bedridden. Years before Géricault had painted him in his chef d'œuvre Le Radeau de la Méduse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa
Only 3 survived the incident out of ~150, Géricault found those 3 men and asked them to help for the painting, going as far as asking to pose as to incorporate them in it. You can see Correard in the middle, pointing his arm toward the horizon.

I like to imagine they remained friends after this collaboration throughout the years, and that my "ancestor" visited him in his last moments, capturing the loss of his friend in this painting. I have no discernable talent for painting or engineering, however.